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To better understand this column, readers should know I am a second-generation life-long journalist — my son is the third. All three of us were named Guillermo, and all of us religiously read the sports pages before we turned to the "important" news of the day. This might explain my chagrin upon learning this week that once again three Cuban baseball players — Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso, Tony Oliva and Luis Tiant — were passed over by the Golden Era Committee in charge of selecting members to the Baseball Hall of Fame among those who played between 1947 and 1972. For Miñoso, a great left fielder for the Chicago White Sox, it is a...

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To better understand this column, readers should know I am a second-generation life-long journalist — my son is the third. All three of us were named Guillermo, and all of us religiously read the sports pages before we turned to the...

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